[chuck-users] Is this possible?

[Perry R Cook]

>From the famous halting problem, no compiler
or any program can detect an infinite loop.
Thus we can't detect infinite loops that do
or do not advancce time.

PRC

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Mike McGonagle wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> As ChucK is intended to be an "on the fly" tool for sound generation,
> I was wondering if it would be possible if the compiler could detect
> infinite loops that DO NOT advance time. I am thinking about this more
> from a practical stand point that when some new code is being added to
> ChucK, if a loop is entered that does not advance time, nor yeild
> control to another thread, it will SEIZE the machine, with the only
> recourse is rebooting.
>
> While this is practical, I know that it would be one of those feature
> requests that would be low priority. I only make the recommendation
> because over the weekend, I was playing with ChucK and ran accross
> this very problem. I would think that in performance, it would not
> really be practical to have to reboot. At the same time, I wonder how
> many performances would rely on entering raw code, instead of loading
> files.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
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